"Cultivate your life - you are what you grow -
inch by inch, row by row"

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I'm a wife, mom, long-time organic gardener and now a new organic farmer, Registered Dietitian (RD), author of the book A Dietitian's Cancer Story and website CancerRD.com. In between all that and more, I am a multiple-time cancer survivor. My website focuses on nutrition information for cancer survivors, however I began this blog in June 2007 to share a wider scope of my thoughts about life as a cancer survivor, food and nutrition, growing food, recipes, our environment, and the urgent need for developing food systems that promote health not disease, ecological sustainability, and social justice.

In January 2009, I began my blog "365DaysOfKale" to write about my passion for "all things kale" and the CancerVictoryGardens™ blog in March 2009 to help everyone touched by cancer cultivate health through a garden's nourishment of body and soul.

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Personally autographed copies of the most recent printing are available at Nicola's Books in Ann Arbor, MI (734-662-0600, nicolasbooks.com). Proceeds are donated to research funded by The American Institute for Cancer Research (aicr.org, 1-800-843-8114).

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Monday, June 13, 2011

Wonderful Wedding Weekend

Exhausted but exhilarated is an accurate description of how I feel this morning. I don't have any photos to share but details keep zooming through my mind's eye and heart as I reflect on all the joys we felt during the past week's activities.

We shared a lot of love and food over the weekend, with as much as possible of the food coming from our local farmers and producers, so a wide section of our community was involved with the 'wedding wows'. :-)

We now know that we can easily and comfortably feed 32 people at a sit-down meal in our barn and that we can enjoyably entertain a large number of people at an 'open house' in our farm home's large rooms. Funny thing though, even with our big open house, our kitchen was always filled with people (I think many of them were waiting to be first in line when the rhubarb scones came out of the oven!).

So now my husband and I are entering the 'after June 12th' phase of our life. We are disorganized but moved into our farm, both boys are now married and I have two daughters - woohoo - I love it!!, and our 'city house' is in the process of being sold.

I think today we can finally start 'just' being garlic farmers. So, I need to keep this post short because it's time to get organized and ready to harvest our garlic scapes to sell at three local farmers' markets starting tomorrow (Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday afternoons). Whew!! On Friday morning, we'll have time to look at each other and again, enjoy the feeling of being both exhausted but exhilarated!

I'll end with the grace I read at the rehearsal dinner. I tried, but I was not able to read it with wanting to cry tears of both joy and happiness in addition to gratitude at being present for my older son's wedding.

4 comments:

Congratulations on your son's marriage. And now I'm excited for you as you settle down to being "just garlic farmers". When you are ready, and things have calmed down enough we do want to have you and Dick out for dinner. Maybe a weekend in July or even August?